Vintage Klein Pliers - How Old Are They?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Just picked up some Vintage Klein Pliers on Ebay and wanted to share them with you. I also share how to tell how old your Kleins are.
Hope it is useful & THANKS FOR WATCHING!
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"Idk if I'm gonna go that far into it"
Proceeds to go that far into it lol
😂… I’ve killed a lot of hours searching vintage tools in the last week
Yeah... I was searching on Ebay yesterday, next thing you know I'm planning on picking through an old man's garage tomorrow.
Watch your footing. The rabbit hole runs deep.
@@thomashunter267 😂😂
One tool worth buying old you may not think about is files nickelson Simmonds mercer. It goes in that order of quality and how good/expensive they were. Old files once cleaned of rust if they were made in usa or Germany and pre 1970s were solid hardened steel sometimes even 5160 spring steel. This means they are gonna work forever for the most part and be sharper than modern ones. New files are case hardened so .002 thousands of a inch of hardened surface on the outside and garbage soft metal on thr inside. Once you get past the case hardening it's a butter knife at best. Rasps are soft metal as well no matter the age so avoid thoes only files. No one makes files in thr usa anymore and there's only 2 3 brands japan Germany swiss left that make something worth using. Next time the free box has rust files it in look for thoes names and made in usa clean it up and you have a file or knife if you grind it down for life.
👍👍. Appreciate it
Beautiful little pieces of history. The good ol days when klein was called klein and sons and everything came out of chicago. Thanks for sharing w us. I think the best i got are klein screwdrivers from the 90s. But im gonna take a gander at old kleins or possibly german tools
It’s been interesting just searching Vintage tools. I always like looking at them just to see what people have been working with over time.
Klein makes replacement handles you dip in hot water and you hammer them in with a mallet
I might look into that… thanks 👍
I think the Klein Kote tenite 60 replacement grips from Amazon would work great. I have them and some of the longer ones on several old Kleins.
Steve, I have used them to replace dipped handles on a few pair of Kleins.
Very cool. I’ve wanted to get into vintage tools, but it does seem like a deep rabbit hole. Old wrenches are my favorite, so maybe someday I’ll take the plunge on ebay.
@@jaydoherty8402 I’d love to go estate sale shopping, but it’s hard for me to find time to get to those
Congrats! What a Find! MADE IN U. S. A. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s sad I rival a couple of those in age! 😯 😞 😂
That last pair of duckbill smooth pliers work well fro safely crimping off a fuel line, if pulling a carb from a chainsaw, mower, or other small engines, etc.
I don't know if I’d leave them like they are, or hot dip those handles?!? Tough call 🧐🤷🏻♂
Take care Joey and have a great and blessed and safe week! 👍💪🙏🇺🇸😊
@@georgedavall9449 😂
I haven’t decided on the handles either. I will see
I restored old rusty tools for a hobby for a long time getting stuff in good shape is hard. I do have a handful of old tools I collected and work great but scared they may disappear on a jobsite. I have needlenose linemans and side cutters (1922 1928 1921) all klein and perfect logos. Functionality that works great even on 12/2 romex. The one I actually use often is a bell systems by stanley 1908 little 4in total length screwdriver (tweaker) that has a dark black walnut handle and was made in 1908 😨. They made some good old stuff back then and don't knock using them if there cheap enough and you don't mind loosing them. My oldest I found was a 1910s ish verified by klein themselves linemans which I ended up selling as a collectable for big money. I didn't win the oldest pair of kleins contest but only by 5 Or 6 years when klein did that contest. If you find one a wire wheel on the body and scotchbrite belt or pad on the logo will clean them up nicely without degrading the steel. If you get a pair and don't like the grips they do make them or heatshirks works as well. My favorite grip for one of these is called am milkers grip ussaly for rebar tie pliers. Good luck with vintage tools start slowly.
It is fun looking around for them. I had a pair of 1917 Lineman’s I was watching but I missed out on them. They looked like they were in good shape
1917 or 1928 they didn't change really and from what I understand they had high amounts of mollybuelum (like comolly steel) in them making them exceptionally tough. I think the levels they used were banned in manufacturing for being toxic or heavy pollution. That from my understanding is why they could never make tools like they did back in the day.
That's really neat. I can't help but look at things like that and realize that once upon a time they were brand new. I wonder how long they were used? Did some tradesman earn a living with those tools? You are holding some pieces of history right there.
I haven't specifically gone down that rabbit hole, but many of my tools are new because this Spring I replaced most of the pawn shop tools I bought in the mid 90s when the ex-gf-from-Hell saw to it that I was broke for years.
@@OnusBones I’m a big fan of looking at old tools and wonder the same thing… think about how people used them and then wonder what they would think about some of the stuff we have today
Perfect for an EDC kit
@@Hazan1fan 👍👍.. yeah they are a smaller size, but definitely can do plenty with them
I love vintage tools. Contrary to some comments, I think there are a lot of great vintage tools out in the wild. I prefer estate auctions & estate sales over ebay.
Yeah, I’m going to start paying more attention for sales in my area and see if I can find any.
Love the hand-wear finish those metal handles have. Makes me nostalgic I remember my grandpa using these all around his house. Vintage tool hunting is definitely a dangerous rabbit hole
@@joshuawilliams3392 it is… it’s at least kept me off Amazon 😂
I have a sizeable collection of vintage insulation testers now, going through the history of them from the original designs back in 1905 up to around 1980, before they moved to digital technology. Still have a few I would like to get hold of, but it really is a a bit too addictive. 😃😃
The thought of going back to a analog meter sounds terrible but alot of the ones at least 40 to 50 years old looked so good art deco ect. Appreciate them for what they are and how they changed the world
@@three-phase562 I’ve scrolled eBay more than Amazon this week 😂
@@MattHmm-rq6dn For a specific measurement value digital will always beat analogue, but for just checking out continuity I find that an analogue meter responds faster than digital and I don't mind using them for that.
Snap-On has a fairly new tool CC87ACF 8inch flush cutter and diagonal cutter combo, probably be good in your line of work 👍🏼
@@sizzleneck appreciate it, I will look them up 👍
Those look pretty sweet, the wear just shows how often they were pulled in and out of a pouch as well as looked after.
@@gnic76 yeah they looked like they were in really good shape in the pictures to pass up. I’m still pretty upset I let the 100+ year old Lineman pliers get away from me
They must have been used very rarely.
Overall today's tools are much better than old tools - they are MUCH cheaper and often better made, because only since 1990s we managed to make steel production 100% repeatable.
Prior to that, foundries newer knew what will come out of blast furnace. So in order to compensate for that, some tool manufacturers forged their tools, but it was time and money consuming. So good hand tools were extremely expensive.
@@Stefan_Kawalec yeah they were in really good shape… really better than I expected even from the pictures. I decided to get these just for the price. There are some that are crazy expensive just because they are old, but that are in pretty rough shape.
Agree on most of todays tools 👍
Nice little haul ... Who wouldn't love Klein ? Thx
👍👍.. I thought they were in pretty good shape
beautiful!
@@toolsandtactics they were in really good shape by the picture… didn’t want to pass on them.
i have a pair of klein linesman pliers that are from 1925 the code marked on them is 2-25
@@nickp3270 nice… I got outbid on a pair of 1917… and it was my fault. Pretty upset I missed the end of the auction
I picked up a Klein & Sons pair of lineman pliers at an estate sale, have any tips on sharpening the cutters on them?
@@BlackoutTribal these came as I showed them, I didn’t do any work to them.
It’s always hard to get a good angle on a pair of Lineman’s because there isn’t a lot of room to get tools in there. You would probably have to make yourself something small to fit in there, but maybe someone has some good ideas… I’m interested myself
you could make a vid on this wrench i bought no other videos on it and it doesn't skip like the yellow jacket
SW-127-C
SW-127-OFFSET
@@eddie_fisher4555 where did you buy them at?
@@MORGANSMaintenance i got the offset version on trutechtools and the regular i saw on walmart website only bought the offset though
@@MORGANSMaintenance trutechtool for the offset regular is available on walmart website i found it while looking for 85220 gearwrench that i saw in someones veto loadout but its discontinued and couldnt find it online for sale
@@eddie_fisher4555 thanks